Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa, declaring “the day of the so-called ugly American is over.”

Almost no one outside of Georgia knew who he was, but he saw his opportunity. Editor’s note: Before he died on November 29, Lance Morrow, who covered Jimmy Carter’s presidency for Time in the 1970s, prepared this remembrance for City Journal.

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The 39th president’s funeral motorcade made several stops Saturday before finishing at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta